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A few months ago Google suddenly emailed me saying they're changing my account region to Russia, the country threatening to invade us, and I couldn't figure out
by a2128 2y ago
A few months ago Google suddenly emailed me saying they're changing my account region to Russia, the country threatening to invade us, and I couldn't figure out a way to do anything about it. It was quite insulting.
My theory for why is that I used a Finnish VPN, and Google famously uses outdated GeoIP databases which believed the IP to be in Russia, despite every other public lookup I could find saying it's in Finland. Whenever I would visit a Google site not logged in, it'd be served in Russian. So eventually they decided I must be Russian.